Tag: Trade Policy
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Riyadh’s new anti-dumping probe into Indian and Chinese duplex paperboard, launched days after Seoul opened its own case against Chinese ethyl acetate, signals how quickly the Gulf and emerging Asia are converting to trade defense as a first-line industrial policy tool. RIYADH, August 25, 2026 Saudi Arabia has opened an anti-dumping investigation into imports of…
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Trump waives out-of-quota tariffs on 300,000 tonnes of ground beef for 90 days, drawing fire from ranchers and Republican allies as food prices dominate the midterm landscape WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2026 By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting President Donald Trump has ordered a 90-day suspension of out-of-quota tariffs on up to 300,000 metric…
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India has walled off the bottom of its float glass market, imposing a Rs 34,000 per tonne price floor on imports that squeezes low-cost suppliers from China and Southeast Asia while handing domestic producers a year of breathing room. NEW DELHI, Aug. 23, 2026. India has erected a price floor beneath one of the most…
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India has imposed a one-year minimum import price on clear float glass, restricting shipments priced below Rs 34,000 per tonne while a subsidy investigation into Malaysian and Indonesian producers runs its course. NEW DELHI, August 24, 2026. India has erected a price floor beneath one of the construction and automotive sectors’ most fundamental inputs. In…
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Beijing rejects Washington’s transshipment accusations as Mexico signals fresh duties on Chinese steel and textiles, deepening a trade rupture that is redrawing sourcing maps across North America. MEXICO CITY/BEIJING, August 24, 2026. China’s Ministry of Commerce has publicly rejected a White House report accusing Chinese exporters of routing goods through Mexico and other countries to…
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India throws open a rare duty-free window for 1 million tonnes of raw sugar imports, suspending a 100 percent tariff wall to tame record domestic prices before the festival season. NEW DELHI, Aug. 23, 2026. India, the world’s largest consumer of sugar and one of its most protected sugar markets, has cracked open its tariff…
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Tariff refunds ordered after the Supreme Court’s IEEPA ruling have exceeded new tariff collections every month since May, new data show, wiping out net customs revenue and complicating the administration’s fiscal claims WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2026 The federal government is now paying out more in tariff refunds than it collects in tariffs, a reversal without…
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Roughly 90,000 jobs, two to three tenths of a point off growth, and an average tariff that jumped almost two points overnight. What the numbers say about the August rupture, why British Columbia and Ontario absorb the worst of it, and what a Canadian exporter should do in the next 30 days. OTTAWA, AUGUST 24,…
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An 80-minute phone call between Presidents Lula and Trump revives stalled negotiations over the 25 percent Section 301 tariff and the 12.5 percent forced-labor duty squeezing Brazilian exports to the United States WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2026 The United States and Brazil agreed on Friday to restart negotiations over the tariffs Washington imposed on Brazilian goods…